Was curious about this on a family member’s new laptop running Windows 11. Is there anything Linux can do with this processor yet?

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    16 days ago

    Most distros with have Arm and x86/64 versions so it is quite likely it can.

    Not sure what the state of the Risk-v instruction set is.

    But without knowing the device itself there is limited information we can give you.

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      15 days ago

      This isn’t an Arm vs x86 thing though, newer CPUs pretty much across the board from Intel/AMD/Qualcomm have an additional NPU that they use for AI acceleration.

      As for support, you might be able to use them? It probably depends on the exact software but they might be able to be used for local LLMs. It’s not exactly clear what practical uses they have even on Windows so that doubly applies to Linux just because it’s more niche.